White people dressed up as plantation slaves and acted like black musical in the act of dance forms. ... African Americans were shown as innocent people who sang and danced all night long. ... The term "African American Literature" is understood by most as Sub-Saharan (East and West) Africa. ... Jazz dancing became the new thing and Jazz dancing schools began to open up. They first opened up in Harlem and then downtown to teach people that didn't know how to dance. ...

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CHANGES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE 1920"S In the 1920's, African Americans were going through many changes and were doing many new things that they hadn't even thought about doing before that. ... Not only did African Americans start jazz, but some of the best jazz musicians were African American. ... This is when African American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, which is an area of New York City. ... It was a celebration of the unique culture of African Americans, and gave the world a new view of African American expressio...

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Fads of the Roaring Twenties included Flagpole sitting, the dance marathon, and a Chinese game, Mah-jongg. ... Dance floors shook all over the country with various dances that accompanied the music. ... The Roaring Twenties marked a new generation of American Literature and the recognition of African American writers. ... The Harlem Renaissance, the rebirth of African American culture, was a huge part of the Roaring Twenties. ... Black writers wrote about the experiences of African Americans, the lynchings and other violence that they had to survive after WWI. ...

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Jazz music was a blend of West African and Latin rhythms, African American spirituals and blues, and European harmonies. ... As this happened, white musicians began incorporating jazz into their music, while big bands, both black and white popularized it for dancing. Quite possibly the greatest cultural changes came about with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in Harlem, New York, of African American actors, artists, writers, and musicians. ... The Harlem Renaissance was above all a literary movement, when famous novelists such as Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes produced work ...

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More than a literary movement and more than a social revolt against racism, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African Americans and redefined African American expression. ... The sights and sounds of Harlem, its music and dance and intellectual life, inspired Langston more than his classes in mining engineering, and eventually he quit school. ... Having difficulty finding work, Hughes, twenty-one years old, joined the crew of a ship sailing for Africa. ... He painted many different series of works depicting the lives of many different African Americans. ... During the Harl...

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Hip-hop culture was developed in New York City in the 1970's mainly by African Americans, first emerging from The Bronx; the lifestyle of Hip-hop culture has now spread to urban and suburban communities worldwide. ... The four historic elements of Hip-Hop are emceeing, DJ'ing, graffiti, and break dancing. ... Being used as a powerful voice in America, there were messages being delivered through songs that dwelled on uplifting the African American race and addressing problems that were against blacks as well. ...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. ... African-Americans was encouraged to celebrate their heritage. ... Thematic content included Africa as a source of inspiration, African-American history, folk idioms, including music and religion of the South, and social injustice. ... Never before had so many Americans rea...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... More than a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance elevated the unique culture of African-Americans and redefined African-American expression. African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage. ... It was an African-American company, but it only performed plays written by whites because plays written by African-Americans were not yet allowed. It was a unique experience for African-Americans to see Africa...

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African spirituals were carried to America among the hearts of oppressed slaves in the 1600s. ... African Spirituals gave root to other genres of music: blues, folk, and in 1950s, rock n roll. ... Hip-Hop is synonymous with the culture of appreciation of Rap, as well as one that produces different danceable beats. ...

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His father was not happy with the way African Americans were being treated so he moved to Mexico. ... He was elected in his class because there was only one other African American and she was was a girl. The class like most of America thought that most African Americans can sing and dance so they thought that Langston would have rhythm. ... Woodson, who worked with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. ... Langston was always trying to help African Americans learn to love White Americans. ...

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""(93) and this new man was going to show the world that African Americans had meaning and were not just slaves and good singers. ... He watched the rise and fall of African Americans in the 1920's. ... He says that Shuffle Along , " gave just the proper push to that Negro vogue of the 20's, that spread to books, African sculpture, music and dancing."" (100) This was all when the Negro was in vogue. ... Yes, African Americans did rise but they were still too weak minded to stay on top. ... After African Americans made it too the top they still allowed the whites to bring them ...

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The mistreatment of Blacks in the south sparked the big exodus of African Americans to the North, which eventually led to the Harlem Renaissance. ... He explained that after War World 1 in 1918, African Americans were faced with one of the lowest points in history since the end of slavery. ... The fear of race riots in the South caused large number of African Americans to move North. The Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to show and reflect their talents throughout society. ... Blacks took over an area that was basically just another New York City neighborh...

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I speak somewhat fluent Spanish, am very knowledgeable on the different parts of Hispanic culture, and am very into Latin dance and music. ... Among the several different backgrounds represented in New York City is Chinese, Bangladeshi, Korean, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Indian, and African American, not to mention the numerous religions represented as well. ... Singing, dancing, and acting my entire life has obviously instilled a passion for seeing performance as well. ...

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On March 3, 1991, in California, Rodney King an African American, was pulled over after a high-speed chase. ... Tracy Brock also an African American was arrested in Manhattan in November of 1986. ... Abner Louima a Haitian immigrant was arrested outside a dance club in Brooklyn, and was brutally assaulted when he arrived at the police station. ...

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There are glances all over Europe and in India, and anywhere I go outside Africa. ... But the world participates, too: when I sat down to lunch at the Römerhof restaurant one afternoon-that day, all the customers and staff were white-the music playing overhead was Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody....

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After World War II, many African Americans from the South, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans migrated to the city in search of jobs. ... Some interesting facts about NY There are more than 150 museums, 400 art galleries, more than 240 theaters, 60 clubs and 50 dance halls, 17000 restaurants and cafés, 1543 parks with playgrounds (among them Central Park with the square of 34 ha, covering 5 % of Manhattan's square; 65 bridges, almost 200 skyscrapers, 10240 km of streets and roads, 3500 churches and synagogues, 1385 taxies in NY. ...

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Abstract East Harlem is also known as Spanish Harlem and El Barrio is a neighborhood located in Upper Manhattan, New York. East Harlem is a place full of people who embrace there culture. They take so much pride in their neighborhood even though they suffer from social issues. East Harlem has the hi...

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